Yesterday, Abdel Muti al-Bayyumi, a leading scholar at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University expressed his support for France’s new ban on the niqab. He said the niqab “has no basis in Islamiclaw and there is nothing in the Koran or Sunna that supports it” and that those who wear it do “not give a good impression of Islam.”

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